Best Pillows for Combination Sleepers (2023)

Brooklyn Bedding Luxury Cooling Memory Foam Pillow

Best Cooling Pillow for Combination Sleepers

Brooklyn Bedding’s Luxury Cooling Memory Foam Pillow is designed to counteract overheating on multiple fronts. The memory foam core is ventilated with tiny pin holes and infused with both cooling gel and copper-graphite. The copper-graphite offers the additional benefit of antimicrobial and allergen-resistant properties.

For combination sleepers, the pillow’s standout feature is the fast-response memory foam. The foam is designed to respond to pressure quickly, which should make it easier to get your head and neck into a comfortable alignment when you switch sleeping positions.

The Brooklyn Bedding Luxury Cooling Memory Foam Pillow isn’t adjustable but is available in low or high profile. The high-profile option should work well for side/back combination sleepers. If your primary or secondary sleeping position is on your stomach, you should go with the low-profile option to promote a comfortable spine alignment.

Pros

• 4.5/5 customer rating
• Multiple cooling features
• 3-year warranty

Cons

• Price ($129 queen, $149 king)
• No trial period

Luxome LAYR Pillow

Best Luxury

The LAYR pillow is one of the most adjustable pillows you can buy, which makes it a great pick for combination sleepers who switch positions frequently throughout the night. You can unzip the pillow and add any combination of the interior memory foam inserts to get not only the right loft, but the right firmness, as well. This mix-and-match customization allows you to dial in your comfort level for a more personalized, luxury experience.

The LAYR’s high-quality materials—including the bamboo viscose cover, cotton insert covers, and gel-infused foam—give it not only a fancy hotel room feel but excellent cooling and natural breathability. It’s a great pick for those who want more support and comfort from their pillow but aren’t sure what type or style to buy. Just bring this one home, and experiment with it until you find your best sleep. 

Pros:

• 4.9/5 customer rating
• Fully customizable in firmness and height
• Good for all types of sleepers

Cons:

• Relatively short 30-night sleep trial

Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Cloud Pillow

Best Memory Foam Pillow

The Tempur-Cloud pillow works well for side, back, and combination sleepers because it has a medium firmness and loft that cradles your neck and adapts quickly when you change sleep positions. Memory foam has a reputation for being slow-moving, but we found this pillow to be plenty responsive—it was fast and easy to get good support from the pillow, even while tossing and turning. It also provides excellent pressure relief, so neck and back ache sufferers should enjoy a contoured, cushioned feel that lessens their pain over time. 

The pillow gives you two options—”hi” and “lo”—so it suits nearly every position well. (We don’t recommend it for stomach sleepers, though—the “lo” is still fairly high.) Hot sleepers will also like that the pillow feels so crisp; it has dual-sided gel layers that make it sleep cooler and vent air better than standard memory foam.  

Pros:

• 4.1 / 5 customer rating
• Ultra-durable
• Five-year warranty

Cons:

• Doesn’t come with a sleep trial or returns.

Saatva Latex Pillow

Best Latex Pillow

Latex pillows tend to feel springy and responsive, which makes them a great pick for combination sleepers who frequently change positions throughout the night. This pillow has that signature latex bounce and also works well for all sleep positions due to its adjustability. 

The pillow has a three-layer construction—if you find it to be too firm or elevated, you can remove its Talalay latex core and sleep on the other two layers, which include a machine-washable outer pillow made of plush microdenier fiber and a soft organic cotton cover. All three layers promote good cooling and breathability, as well as excellent support and pressure relief for those with back and neck pain. 

Pros:

• 4.7/5 customer rating 
• Removable insert 
• Made of eco-friendly, high-quality materials
• High responsiveness makes it easy to change positions

Cons:

• Pricier than most pillows due to its luxury materials

Cozy Earth Silk Pillow

Best for Back Sleepers

If you like the smooth luxury of long-strand mulberry silk, this pillow is worth the splurge. The pillow has a medium firmness that works well for both back and side sleepers; the silk inside doesn’t compress as much as a down or down-alternative pillow might, but it’s designed to be plush and compact enough to provide just the right amount of versatile support for all but stomach sleeping. 

The Cozy Earth pillow also has a bamboo viscose cover that’s hypoallergenic, breathable, and quick-drying, so it doesn’t retain heat or moisture. It’s certainly not the cheapest pillow out there, but there’s a reason Oprah has listed Cozy Earth bedding among her favorite things—you can expect the pillow to feel supportive, cool, and creamy-soft against your skin.  

Pros: 

• 4.9/5 customer rating
• Breathable bamboo cover
• Luxury-feeling silk interior

Cons: 

• Not adjustable
• Pricey due to its high-end materials

Lagoon Fox Pillow

Best Adjustable Pillow for Combination Sleepers

For combination sleepers, a pillow they can customize to fit multiple sleeping positions is a major plus. The Fox pillow—which Lagoon describes as fully adjustable—is designed to meet the challenge. Simply add or remove pieces of the shredded memory foam filler until you find just the right combination of height, firmness, and feel.

The fact that the Fox pillow uses memory foam means more good news. Known for its responsiveness and contouring, memory foam is the ideal material for both pillows and mattresses designed to accommodate combination sleepers as they change sleeping positions during the night. The memory foam is also CertiPUR-US certified.

The cover is a bamboo/polyester blend, so you get the additional benefit of bamboo’s natural hypoallergenic properties. You can get the Fox pillow in queen and king sizes, and both the fill and cover are machine-washable.

Pros

• 4.7/5 customer rating
• 5-year warranty
• 100-night sleep trial

Cons

• Free shipping unavailable outside the contiguous U.S.
• Price ($119.99 queen, $139.99 king)

Layla Pillow 

Best for Side Sleepers

Combination sleepers who spend most of the night on their sides need a pillow with a higher loft and good support. We found the Layla to be plenty supportive due to its memory foam core and memory foam filling, which you can adjust to your desired level of density and height. The pillow uses gel-infused foam to sleep cooler than your standard memory foam model; its zip-off polyester cover is soft, breathable, and easy to machine-wash. 

If you’re looking for good pressure relief, this pillow is a good choice—its open-cell memory foam contours to your head and neck to relieve any buildup of tension. It works well for all types of sleepers, even stomach sleepers.

Pros:

• 4.5/5 customer rating
• Adjustable memory foam filling
• Sleeps fairly cool
• Contoured pressure relief

Cons:

• Not for those who like a pillow to feel fluffy

Birch Pillow

Best for Cooling

The Birch Pillow has a latex core that makes it feel responsive enough to help you easily switch positions, with a medium-firm squishiness that’s well-suited to most side sleepers and back sleepers. The pillow is made with eco-friendly, sustainable materials like Talalay latex and organic wool, wrapped inside an organic cotton cover.

All the pillow’s materials have natural cooling properties: The latex is airy and breathable, while the plush wool regulates temperature and wicks moisture to keep the pillow’s interior dry and cool in the summer, and cozy in the winter. The cotton cover is designed to feel light, stretchy, and above all, soft. 

Pros:

• 5/5 customer rating
• Eco-friendly materials
• Bouncy and responsive

Cons:

• Not machine-washable

Coop Home Goods Original Loft Pillow

Best Value Pillow for Combination Sleepers

Coop Home Goods sought to create an innovative pillow that was perfect for combination sleeps and hot sleepers,. The result is the Original Loft Pillow, which is also less expensive than many comparable products.

The pillow uses a soft, gel-infused memory foam and microfiber blend to absorb heat and lead to a cooler sleeping experience. The foam filling is shredded, which allows the sleeper to mold and maneuver the pillow into the perfect shape for their sleeping position. Also, the pillow features an inner that which allows you to add or remove the foam filling to suit your size and sleeping positions.

Its gusseted design helps to prevent a flat-feeling pillow—instead, you have edge-to-edge support. The pillow cover is made of a highly breathable and super-soft blend of bamboo rayon and polyester that is hypoallergenic and dust mite resistant.

Pros:

• 4.5/5 customer rating
• $72 for queen-size, $92 for king-size
• Hypoallergenic

Cons:

• May need fluffing every few days
• Temporary off-gassing odor after unboxing